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John Marshall Lib/E: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court

John Marshall Lib/E: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court


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The life of John Marshall, Founding Father and America's premier chief justice. In 1801, a genial and brilliant Revolutionary War veteran and politician became the fourth chief justice of the United States. He would hold the post for 34 years (still a record), expounding the Constitution he loved. Before he joined the Supreme Court, it was the weakling of the federal government, lacking in dignity and clout. After he died, it could never be ignored again. Through three decades of dramatic cases involving businessmen, scoundrels, Native Americans, and slaves, Marshall defended the federal government against unruly states, established the Supreme Court's right to rebuke Congress or the president, and unleashed the power of American commerce. For better and for worse, he made the Supreme Court a pillar of American life. In John Marshall, award-winning biographer Richard Brookhiser vividly chronicles America's greatest judge and the world he made.

About the Author :
Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and the author of eleven books, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, American, and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. He lives in New York City. Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for the year's best narration. He has earned many Earphones Awards and AudioFile magazine "Best of the Year" accolades.

Review :
A concise, informative, and at times entertaining biography of our nation's fourth chief justice.-- "Kirkus Reviews" As Brookhiser shows in this brisk biography, Marshall's success was partly due to the power of his legal reasoning and partly to his brilliant management of the men who served with him on the Supreme Court...Marshall would doubtless be pleased that it is his ideas that dominate this biography, not his quarrels, debts, ambitions, or amours.-- "Foreign Affairs" As Richard Brookhiser's fine new biography makes clear, the polarization of the age of Marshall matched (or even surpassed) our current battles over the composition of the Supreme Court...[A] balanced account.-- "New York Times Book Review" Entertaining and instructive...Brookhiser brings to vivid life the gaudy facts and seamy characters behind such great cases as Dartmouth College and McCulloch.-- "Washington Post " Full of wisdom.-- "Florida Bar Journal " In Brookhiser's short and captivating biography, Marshall emerges as the institution's first great partisan operative.... The career of the great chief justice continues to this day to calibrate our expectations for the court.-- "New Republic" Informative without being dull, thesis-driven without being argumentative...Another good entry in the good series of works on the Founders that Brookhiser has been giving us all these years.-- "Washington Free Beacon" Marshall's...sphinx-like quality has proved tempting to biographers, and Brookhiser's volume is the third to appear since the beginning of 2016. It is also the first that is genuinely satisfying.... Elegant and readable.-- " National Review " Mr. Brookhiser explains [Marshall's] decisions, and the disputes that gave rise to them, with the clarity and verve that we have come to expect from his lapidary historical portraits...[A] fine book.-- "Wall Street Journal" Richard Brookhiser brings his deep knowledge of the American founding, his appreciation for history's crisscrossing patterns, and his signature minimalist style to America's greatest chief justice. His book is also timely. For John Marshall's seminal conviction was that we were a single people, and that government was not 'them' but 'us.'-- "Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us" Richard Brookhiser is a master of the interpretive biography, and his incisive portrait of John Marshall couldn't be more timely. The Supreme Court stands at the middle of the American political arena, and Marshall is the man who put it there.-- "H.W. Brands, author of Heirs of the Founders" "A concise, informative, and at times entertaining biography of our nation's fourth chief justice." -- "Kirkus Reviews" "Brookhiser's account is compact and balanced, and in the current political climate, could hardly be timelier...By persuading the justices to set aside their partisan differences and to speak in one voice, Marshall established the court as an emblem of bipartisan legitimacy in a polarized time." -- "New York Times Book Review" "Genuinely satisfying....Elegant and readable." -- "National Review " "Richard Brookhiser is a master of the interpretive biography, and his incisive portrait of John Marshall couldn't be more timely." -- "H. W. Brands, author of Heirs of the Founders" Brookhiser's John Marshall is an erudite and elegant tour through not only the great chief justice's life, but the beginnings of the United States and the nation's Supreme Court. With colorful portraits of members of the founding generation, and clear and insightful descriptions of the legal cases that that shaped the American legal system, this book is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on the Early American Republic.-- "Annette Gordon-Reed, coauthor of "Most Blessed of the Patriarchs""


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781549177002
  • Publisher: Basic Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books
  • Edition: Unabridged edition
  • Returnable: N
  • ISBN-10: 1549177001
  • Publisher Date: 06 Nov 2018
  • Binding: CD-Audio
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court


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